Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-04
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS.

: DAKOTA CONCENTRATIONS.
D phe postotfice at Chitulah, Mclean
4 county, has been Discontinued.
6 IL is probable that Catholic college
Tor north Dakota will locate at Fargo,
VIM. A. Mitchell, has been appointed
! postmaster at Minnesells, Butte county.
y vice Edward M. Bowman, resigned.
The North Dakota anti-saloon alliance
was organized at Jamestown, Thursday.
u. w. Starbird, Of Fargo, is president.
|, There are 10000 acres of choice N. p.
indemnity land around Milnor, and
scores OF claim shanties are going ap in
every direction.
N. Z. station agents are instructed to
decline to furnish cars to bs loaded ON
side tracks at al. stations where there
are public elevators.
i The Northern Pacific elevator COM
pany has built thirteen new elevators in
| Dakota this year, with an average cap
acity of 10000 bushels.
| Elevator men at New Rockford, on the
jamestown Northern. arej bucking
each other and the price OF wheat is l3
cents above the market.
1t is rumored that The Northwestern
rs Immediately to send out corps of
surveyors, who sre to rua o line from
Mitchell to Harold, ON which the grad
ing is to be done this foil.
The Methodist conference Tor north
Dakota meets in Fargo in October, and
one OF the leading questions before it
Will be the location OF college. 1t is
| thought Fargo will be selected.
At the Bismarck land Office there is no
excitement over the opening Of the N. p. 1
indemnity lands, but some inquiry.
Filings are expected in Emmons, Mo-
Intosh, Wells and Mclean counties.
at the Devils Lake fair the five miles
race for the championship OF the north
west was won by Miss Eckles OF Minne~
sota. 1t was very close, and there is a
probability Of another race to decide the
matter.
jamestown claims that the soil in that
vicinity is especially adapted TO celery
raising, and that with proper attention
the James river valley could be made to
more than rival the celebrated Kalama-
zao celery fields.
The ladies OF the Fargo w. o. r. u.
attempted to hold their annual election
last week, but the caucus wrangled for
hours and the jars were 30 loud that ad-
tournament was had month without
election. They are learning political
methods.
Bona fde settlers on the ten mile
strip on either side OF the forty mi
grant along the line OF the Northern
Pacific railroad are within the pale ST
the lay, under recent decisions of Seq
retary Lamar, and will be sustained in
their rights by the interior department.
In Stutsman county potatoes are nm
usually large, and Of superior quality.
The yield and acreage exceeded that OF
any preceding year, and for some time
two and three car loads have been loaded
and shipped each day to points in she
drouth stricken districts OF Illinois,
Wisconsin and other Miasissippi valley
states.
The trustee mortgage given to e.. q.
Eddy on the Huntington & Yerxa prop
erty in Fargo was foreclosed Saturday.
This covered two and quarter sections
OF improved land and about fifty city
lots. 3. Is. Tyler purchased the prop
erty in behalf of a syndicate, paying
SAC. 600 for it--less than one half of the
value.
The Surveyors on the Daluth, Pierre
& Black Hills railroad are in SuIly eoun-
ty, working toward Biunt. It is under-
stood that President Hill has directed
that the old survey be Strengthened up
and q grade found that will average less
than thirty feet to she mile before he
accepts the proposition to build into
Pierre.
a few business men OF considerable
influence IN Ellendale and several other
towns OF Dickey county ere openly work.
ing in favor OF retaining the saloons.
The liquor men are also beginning to be.
stir themselves, An elsction at this time
might result in closing the saloons, but
it is not clear that this result will be at.
tanned in November,
The first assistant postmaster general
has ordered the re-establishment OF the
postofioe at Fort Pierre, Dakota, to be
called Oonlson, and join q. Arnold is to
postmaster. 1t is alleged that the office
at that point Yves discontinued merely
TO compel people to croas the river and
increase the emoluments Of the Pierre
postoffice by their patronage.
]. johnson, an employe OF the Nor tn
western elevator company, in an insane
| fit jumped headforemost through car
window as the train on The Manitoba
was approaching Watertown Friday
night, running twenty-five miles an
hour. The train stopped, and after
some difficulty the man was captured.
He was not injured by the jump.
The district attorney has filed papers
in court to prevent the commissioners OF
Stutsman county from carrying ont their
decision at q recent meeting to issue
warrants in payment OF a Judgment nh-